The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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SoRRowFUL child to the pastor-"Mr. B.,
mother sent me to tell you that father is dead
Pastor-.Is hel Did you call doctors" Child
mo- sir; he just died Of himself"
Mrs. POTTER is thoroughly '.cut up" by the
weekly English papers. The Saturday Review
says it really can have nothing to say about her
until she learns the rudments of acting.
THE Rev. Brooke Herford wants to enlarge
theseating capacity of his Boston church (Ar-
lington-streetl by removing pillars, extending
galleries, etc, but his conservative congregation
hardly likes the idea
SoMERvILLE Journal: The late Professor
Connington could recite the works of Virgil and
Homer from beginning to end. Bnt his friends
always went away and left him with charming
unanimity whenever he started out to do it
THE Ccldwater tMich.) Republican contains
original criticism on the production of the
Devils Auction" played there the other nixht.
| The critic says: "The red calcium lights added
greatly to the realistic representation of hell"
CHILD-Grancpa. how old youl Grandpa
| Il am eighty seven years old, my little dear.
Child-Then you were born eighty years before
/ was. Grandpa-Yes. my little girl. Child
| What a long. long time you had alone waiting
| for me-
Mr. P. DANAvIARR consults his dentist
"Excrucating pain in your teeth, you say"
| inquired the practitioner. "Horrible!' How
often does it come en7' Every FIVE minutes !"
| "And lastsP "Oh! a quarter of an hour at the
| very least"
FRED DOUGLASS, who is now in Naples is
citing great deal of public attention The
Italian papers allude to him as ''Il Douglass"
| He recently lectured before the Young Mems
| Christian Association of that city, on John
| Brown, Of Ossawatomie"
| HowELLs has SIS, 600 year from the Harpers.
Carlton makes $40. 600 by his poems and lectures.
He is the most popular poet in America. Mrs.
Hodgson Burnett has about 1000 . year, and
| Otto Hjalmer Hjorth Boyesen Glider is said to
| draw $40, 600 from the Century.
MONTREAL Star: It looks a good deal as if
Lord Tennyson had got dear old man" Walt
Whitman to take that Jubilee Ode business off
| his hands this time. Taking one consideration
with another" the poet laureate'sl lot has GER
tain general resemblance to the policeman's.
JEAN RIcHEPIN highly approves the conduct
of the pug dog which leaped from a swiftly
m owing railroad train to escape from the
caresses of Nine. Bernhard He says he
would have done it. too had he been in the dogs
| place. And NJ. Richepin is a man Of expert
| ence
A LADY told this story the other day in
Sorosis, the incident having occurred in her own
family: A small boy was requested to look up
the W ord anonymous and use it in a sentence.
He found the meaning to be without name, "
and thereupon handed the following TO his
| happy parent: "Mama has given US q new
baby it is anonymous"
SOME wag imposed upon the New York Even
ing Sun little poem laudatory of that paper.
but the first letters of the lines formed the
acrostic, Dana is a fraud" The verses wore
doubleeaded and given a prominent place on
the editorial page, and the whole edition was
worked off before it was discovered that the in
nocentiooking lines were loaded
SINCE Byron wrote "'Ts Greece, but living
Greece more" the famous little kingdom has
frightened up considerably, and now it is very
much alive. According to Professor Seymour,
of Yale University, the country is enjoying q
positive boom" The population of Athens
has increased during the century from TO- 00C
to 100000, and the city has now steam and horse
railroads.
ONE of the secrets of Mr.. Parnell's success il
that he has never interfered outside of Parlia
men tary business. When outsds of Parliament
he acts the part Of aeitator; when within Parlia
ment he devotes himself to the duty of legislator
but he is always on hand, either within or with
out Parliament, to further the cause of the PEG
pie. But he never speaks except when he ha!
something important to say.
JAMES r. RANDALL, long chief editor Of tn.
Augusta (Ga. Chronicle and more widely known
as the boy author of the yet well-remembered
Southernswar-song. "Maryland. My Maryland,
has caught the infection of Southern progress
He has retired from the editorial chair of thu
Chronicle that he has filled for many years will
conspicuous credit to become interested in ant
editor of new daily paper in Admission, Ala.
TEXAS Siftings: comic actor was much ad
dicted to drink. He was the road and bile,
to appear in a small town. When he came GU
on the stage he drunk that the audienc
Kissed him. Steadyng himself on the scenery
the actor said: ''Ladash and Shentemens-
When an artist of my standing conshents to ar
pear at all in such a little one-horse town as
this he mustn't either be drunksh crazshy.
prefer to be considered an inebriate." The aud
ence roared and forgave him.
MAY a clergyman wheel his own baby in
perambulatorl One would suppose that
might. But not so think the people
, Edinburgh There a clergyman was see
, carrying his baby, and his Mortified congress
ton presented him with perambulator Bu
his last state was than the frst for b
wheeled this vehicle along the streets with b
baby in it. This insult to the gentee suscept
bilites Of his congregation was too much. II
received letter informing him that, while h
abilities gave satisfaction, his services would
no longer needed
WALT WHITMAN is living. at the age
' seventy-six. in Camden, on the Delaware TIL
old poes is in poor health. having had paralyt
stroke some months ago. His white hair is lor
and unkempt. his mild gray eye Is dim. and b
tall 6pura is hene with age Ha amends his tin